 Praise God everyone. I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you back to God's house So that we can worship him in Singing and through study of his word As we start this singing session this afternoon I just want to invite those of you in the sanctuary to rise and those of you at home To bow as we have a word of prayer Let us pray our father who art in heaven we Are in your presence yet again. We're here to seek your face We desire to hear your voice Father may you speak to us because we desire to hear you Father may those who shall minister in your sanctuary this day or father Come With messages that shall bless the hearts of your people may the songs we sing Lift you high that when men see you they may be drawn unto you We with us now is our prayer in Jesus name Amen I'd like us to sing Him 632 the songwriter says my heart can sing when I pause To remember a heartache here is but a stepping stone To greater things of joy that are coming ahead. We'll sing 632 together till God calls us home We will sing a similar song. Thank you sister Florence for bailing out the men Planned for this one, but it's one of those amazing songs him 198 the songwriter says How could it be that? We could gain an interest in the death of our savior. It is such an amazing love. Let's sing this together 198 This afternoon. I'm talking about the VIP qualities of leadership. We have covered Different areas of leadership. We have looked at the leadership style of Jesus We have looked at the types of leadership and Then we have also we are considering also the VIP qualities of leadership today And we yesterday we discovered that where wherever God Has commissioned us to go. We don't have to go where God has not sent us And so I'm looking at the quality the VP VIP qualities of leadership V stands for vision I stands for influence and P stands for personality Because of the shortness of time I may not be able to go into detail As I would have loved to vision These are intellect to intellectual qualities of a leader And this involved analytical being visionary Being fair clear of the things I have already listed. I have mentioned We will find the illustration from the book of first Samuel Chapter 17 So you read it at your own time first Samuel chapter 17 It's telling us it's about David. I'm looking at the life of David as a young person and I'm considering The vision that he has the influence that he has and also the personality that he has as a young leader So the story begins by telling us that Israel was at war with the Philistines and Then a soul who was the leader of Israel? Had his army that went out there. They were meeting at the plane in the planes of Ella and For 40 days they remained out there with without any combat. We are told The reason being that in the camp of the Philistines there was this huge giant man by the name of Goliath We all know the story about David and Goliath and so Jay said the father of David sends David to go to the battlefield to check on his brothers three brothers who are out there Don't forget what I'm talking about his leadership, but I'm talking about the VIP qualities of a leader And so David gets out there He gets there in good time When the war cry has gone out and then the children of Israel begin to run For the past 40 days they have been running Every time Goliath stands up they run to hide They're basically doing what God told them that they would never do if they went to war with him But now Israel is running turning her back on her enemies So David gets out there and then the people begin to run and David asked the question Why are you running? Then somebody is wondering who is this new person who is coming into the battlefield And is asking the question who why are people running they tell David? Don't you see that man? Goliath of God. He has been defying the camp of the children of Israel for these 40 days and Then they come up. They tell David what the king plans to do. The king is a helpless leader He is so helpless. He has no vision. He has no strategy But he is enticing people with the goal and his goal. He's saying in verse 25 Part B. He is saying that he will make the person who kills Goliath Reach in Israel. He will even give him his daughter in marriage. He will give Exempt him from paying taxes in Israel That is the goal that a king's soul has for whoever that can kill Goliath Because he is setting a goal as a king, but he does not know how that goal can be achieved He has no vision. He has no strategy There is nothing that he can do to reach his own goal and achieve his own goal And so then David begins to ask the question and then he is asking What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine that takes away reproach from Israel? While David is asking the people the question his elder brother Eliab comes along and Eliab begins to rebuke David. He is challenging him He says I know the naughtiness of your heart You have come out here to see the battle with whom you have left those few sheep of our father he claims The problem with Eliab is that Eliab like a king's soul like any other leader within the camp of Israel They have no vision for the past 40 days No one in Israel has a vision and has no strategy to conquer this this enemy And so Eliab comes to rebuke David and David looks at him and David says there is a reason why I am doing this But David is not going to waste his time with someone who has no vision And so I am saying again what the preacher said in the morning You don't have to waste your time with people who have no vision Yes, you are a leader God has given you the vision You you know how you are going to achieve your goal But people who are dragging you behind who have no idea where you are going You don't have to spend all your time and all your energy with them help them see your vision Help them to understand what you are working for but if they cannot understand You don't have to waste your time and David is not going to waste his time with his brother And so he leaves his brother and he moves to the next group and then with the next group He asked the same question while David is asking the question Somebody runs and it tells the king that there is somebody here who is ready to go under fight to go live when You know, there are people who are crying for credits They are leaders who want credits where they have not worked Somebody is doing the work for them instead of appreciating those people and recognizing them They are earning credits for themselves. And so this person runs to the king and it tells the king about David and so the king calls for the David and he looks at David and then David he looks at David and then King Saul Dave tells David you are not able to go and fight the man Why because David is saying to the king let no man's heart fail him because of this man Your servant will go David is saying I am going to go. I will go and fight with this Palestine That is a selfless spirit that we can find see in this young man He is using his vision and he is using his influence He is also giving himself to go and fight this young man where nobody in Israel is willing to do And so the king looks at David, but the king says you are too young. You cannot do that That is discouragement instead of the king encouraging him The king is looking at the David and he's saying you cannot do it His brother told him you cannot do it. He did not waste his time with his brother here His own leader is telling him you cannot do it But the but David has history behind him and so he is Convincing the king. He is telling the king that I am a shepherd boy I take care of my father's ship and one time a lion came to take the ship and I went after the lion I killed the lion another time a bear came and I went after the bear and I killed the bear And this is something so powerful David is saying the Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion And from the paw of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of this Palestine That is so powerful indeed. We look at this kind of a leader who is willing to sacrifice himself sacrifice his life So nothing is going to take David away from his goal He knows what he wants. He has a clear vision That he wants to do and he knows how he's going to achieve it His brother is carrying him his king is carrying him But his mission is clear and his vision cannot be taken away from him That is the kind of leadership that we are looking for in the in the church And so Saul said to David when David had convinced him Saul said to David Go and may the Lord be with you a helpless king He is now buying the vision of this young boy. He is buying the strategy He does not know how David is going to do it He does not understand but because now he's so convinced in the name of God He is saying go When Saul tells David to go Saul begins to do something Which he did not understand at the moment Because the Bible says that he started to remove his clothings and then he was clothing David He removed his armor. He removed his coat and then he even took his spear and gave it to David And after he addressed David He was actually at this time transferring leadership over to David But the time had not come and so David begins to walk In these things that the king had given him and then he tries them and then he says no I cannot I cannot walk in these ones. I am not used. I want to say here We don't have to waste our times coping at the people's visions You don't have to mourn over the talents that you don't have God has given each one of us a talent that is fitted for our personality and God has given each one of us the gift that we can use for the honor and glory of his name Here we see David is telling the king. I am not used to this. I cannot use what you are used to using You know sometimes when I sit here and I look at this beautiful choir and I see I hear how they sing so beautifully and so sweetly. Oh I wish oh, I wish I could sing like that But I can't sing I don't have the gift of singing Every time I begin to sing my husband will always shut me down. He says you are singing a wrong note It is not sung like that So I cannot sing in the presence of my husband because he will always shut me down But what I'm saying here gifts and talents are not for comparison You don't have to sit back and say because God has not given me the talent of singing or the talent of That is public talent. There's nothing I will do I will just sit down talents are not for comparison talents are for utilization and so each one of us we need to Use the talents and the gifts that God has given us so David is basically telling the king I am not used to this. I am not going to go in this one And so he removes them and it returns the things back to soul When soul discovered what he had done at the moment He chased David all over the place. He wanted to kill him because he realized that he had it was actually giving the kingdom over to David and So David returns whatever belongs to the king and David begins to walk down the road Goliath had called for King Saul for the past 40 days to send him a man Who would fight him and the the agreement was that if King Saul sent a man and Goliath killed the man that Saul sent then Israel would be servants to Phyllis in the rest of time or if The Phyllis signs if Israel killed the Phyllis and killed Goliath then the man of the Phyllis in order would serve Israel and so David is crossing over Going and I can imagine earlier looking at David and I tell you this boy is a very naughty one Now he's fooling everybody. He is crossing over to beat Goliath as if he can beat a giant But David is going because the war is not just about The Phyllis signs and the Israelites the war is about God Because God had told them when you go out there and I'm with you you will always get victory and The Phyllis signs also were coming coming up with their with their gods And that is why when David crosses over and goes through the Phyllis and the Bible says that Goliath Cursed him by his gods And so David crosses over and David goes Goliath causes him But David has a sling and David has five stones and then he has a stick. He has a shepherds bag When Goliath causes David David said to the Phyllis sign in verses 45 to 47 He says then David said to the Phyllis in you come to me with a sword With a spear and with the javelin But I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand And I will strike you and take you ahead from you and this day I will give the cacuses of the camp of the phyllis signs to the birds of the air and to the wild beast of the earth That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with a sword and with a spear For the battle is the Lord's and he will give you in our hands. Hallelujah to God Praise the Lord. So what we see here David is basically saying this war is not just about me And it is not just about you. It is about our God Against your God as you are claiming to be and so when David is talking about Goliath said I want you to picture what is going on here It is about the VIPs of a leader the VIP qualities of a leader David is talking to Goliath as if he has got Something that is going to kill Goliath immediately, but he only has a stick a sting a sling and and some stones But as far as David is concerned, he does not even have a pen knife on himself And the stick that he has cannot cut the giant said but by faith David is looking and at Goliath and he knows that by faith His God is able to bring victory to Israel When Goliath had those words He was so furious the Bible says that he moved towards David Cursing him with this God by his God's and also he was filled with fury Then when David saw Goliath moving closer David started running to meet Goliath. I Can imagine what is going on in heaven at this time the excitement that is going on in the camp out there in Paradise and I can also imagine the devil and his horse also hovering over the philistines and pushing Goliath to get out There because the war is all about the great controversy And I can imagine God looking down at the plains of Ella I have been to the plains of Ella and so when I talk about Ella I can see what is going on here and I can imagine God Calling on the two-winged angels in heaven and saying how long will it take you to reach the plains of Ella and The two-winged angel says it will take me three minutes God says no that is too long and then he calls on the four-winged angels and then the four-winged says It will take me two minutes God says that's too long and then he calls on the six-winged angels The six-winged angel will say I says One minute. No, it says even one minute is too long Then he calls the Sun and the Sun says I'm already there Hallelujah to God and so when David let go the stone Because he's running with every fiber in his being He's running so fast and so hard and because the Sun is already there because the war is about God He directs that stone from the hand of David and Directed to the only uncovered part of Goliath's body And that is he said the Bible says That that stone hit Goliath so hard in the head that it got stuck And when it got stuck I can imagine again Goliath When the stone hit him He's wondering staggering left and right and say that he'd kid that that kid hit me But before he can answer his own question The Bible says he falls headlong and when he fell David continued running and David Ren jumped on his huge body and pulled that sword and quickly cut off his head Victory is won It is over. The war is over. Victory is won because of it Yes, David had a vision And as soon as he reached the battlefield He saw what was happening He used his influence to convince the king when he saw Goliath Well, somebody has said that when David saw Goliath He looked at Goliath and he said this one is too big to miss While the other people are running this one is too too big to face David Ren to meet him to say this one is too big to miss and so he got into the battlefield and Instantly he had a vision and then he had a strategy On how he was going to achieve How he would implement that vision his goal was to defeat Goliath And the strategy, of course, he knew what he was going to do number one God who delivered him He's not going to let him down now because the war is about God And so he used his influence to convince the king The king who had no vision and had no mission at all and the reason being I look at Saul as helpless as he was but I also say that Saul was right humanly speaking because he had no history He had never killed any lion. He had never killed any bear. And so he could not stand strong to face Goliath He was the strongest man in Israel, but without a vision He was nothing even this 17 year old boy was wiser than him because he depended on God And so David Looked at his vision and he looked at this mission and he was convinced that it was achievable and Applying his pleasant personality The king had nothing left but to give him permission to go. And so we see here David going Mission and influence and personality in the hand of God will always bring victory and We are going out there Using the VIP qualities of a leader of a godly leader There is nothing that will be too big for us that we cannot conquer Because it is all about God. It is not about us. It is about God Mission is not ours What God requires us is our availability. What it requires of us is our availability and our willingness To be instruments in his hand. Hallelujah to God praise the lord As leaders who follow the lord jesus christ We are compelled by his love We are commanded by his word And we are gifted by his spirit To share the gospel with the world No wonder jesus said in matthew 24 verse 14 and this gospel of the kingdom Will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come I want to be part of that mission How about you? I want to be part of that mission That I will be numbered with the people who are finishing the gospel of jesus christ's own art And so if we are willing to be used by god We will radiate god's light In the dark the dark corners of every human being's experience if we are willing Anybody that we will come into contact with to those who are weighed down with guilt Christ offers them forgiveness And this is what we need to share with the world to those who are To those who sin it is redemption and renewal To those who are oppressed it is freedom. That is what god offers to those who live in fear It is peace To those who are despised and rejected It is kinship with the god who endured the shame of the cross. I feel like shouting hallelujah To those who are bound by a christlike culture and tradition It is acceptance by one who places the greatest value on every human soul To those who cannot trust It is dependence upon one Who has proven himself trustworthy So when we give ourselves in the hand of god god will use us To those who are lonely It is friendship with the best friend ever To those who are devalued It is a new identity As joint hairs of the grace of god To those who are secure in their relationship with the lord It is an opportunity to be the bridge that leads another to have assurance in jesus christ So all of us Without any exception All of us if you are willing To be placed in the hand of god We can use our leadership To use some to reach somebody And become an instrument in god's hand By spreading the good news of the kingdom of god hallelujah to god Praise the lord I have a question I still have about four minutes How can you share the word of god? When You don't have a public talent We are talking about going with this gospel message And preaching it preaching the everlasting gospel How can you preach the everlasting gospel if you for example do not have a public talent? Like singing like preaching Like doing something in public What can you do? hallelujah church Praise the lord Did you hear my question? Okay Who wants to give me an answer? Yes, yes Do we have a mic that we can give quickly a roaming mic? God has given us various resources In our hands That one we can use Even to use to empower somebody To reach other people those who have been gifted Those to speak in public places Thank you very much. Thank you very much. There's another hand. There are three hands actually Second each Start with the Lombengi The one who sends you Will give you the Way of presentation I believe that if you have I've committed myself to Christ The first asset I have Is to be Christlike After I have shown Christlike life It is easy now to tell others about the love of God Amen So there's no inability whether you are a watchman or you Whatever you are god will use you at the level. He knows you can achieve. Thank you very much. God bless you Yes, the lady behind him Thank you, sister muga. My name is sesto chanda. I love the lord He has said it all for me. I just want to leave for jesus. Lord make me a christian in my heart That's all amen. Thank you very much. Thank you very much Was there another hand? Did I leave any other hand out? There's one here, please quickly. We have about 50 seconds Thank you. The question was how can I preach without Public talent you can pray for the For the you can pray for for the work that is going on pray for all the missionaries around And then we can support them with all With we can support financially. Yes. Yes. Thank you very much So basically what we are saying here is that all of us are leaders and all of us We have been gifted to share this gospel with the world Whether you have public talent or whether you have a silent talent all of us and as I don't beg He has rightfully said the greatest thing that we have is christlike when we are like christ We are a piece of being read by all men And when they see the beauty of christ in us they too will join us in the work May the lord help our leadership that we will be able to reach the world And transform this world by god's grace as we prepare our people for the coming of the lord I have said talents are not for comparison. They are for utilization stand as we pray And as we are standing to pray we are just making a commitment to the lord once again Saying lord jesus use me for the honor and glory of your name Let us pray our father and our god in heaven. We thank you so much We thank you for enlisting each one of us into the army of god When you have taken us dear lord, we have nothing to fear and we have nothing to fear for the future Let's we forget where you have led us wrong Each one of us we have gifted us and you have given us talents that heaven is waiting for to be used So help us to be faithful Stewards help us to be faithful witnesses as we Join in this work together to prepare people for the coming of the lord And may the name of god be glorified and may the holy spirit find a place in each of our hearts in jesus name We pray amen. May the lord bless the church. Thank you very much for your participation Amen talents are not for comparison therefore utilization Let us lift our voices as we sing The hymn 367 the songwriter says Rescue the perishing and care for the dying Let's Just to sing A common song Him 400 and it's when we sing that song It's the thing that will cause us to desire to rescue those who are perishing because we know the sort of a friend that we have For the remnant is holding the winds of strife That we may be prepared for his soon coming So we have heard this message many times And sometimes we have not taken it seriously But considering all the things that are happening in the world Obviously it is time for us to take the health message seriously And to pray to god that he may help us To be able to overcome our base passions Remember that price Had to conquer appetite when he came Because that is where the fall began And for us also This is something that christ has showed us That we have to conquer appetite For the word of god to be able To reach us and to reach us in a way that we can be able To hear god's voice and to follow him In the way that will help to prepare us for his soon coming Good health Life is a gift But good health is a choice So if it is a choice it means it is your choice And the women's ministry and the deconest says realize that It is the person who makes the food in the kitchen and buys the grocery and all the green That determines the health of the family So our prayer is that you will view this as something that you want to pray to god that he may help you That you may be able to Put it into practice With the health of the holy spirit amen that first that Makes me feel that god is very interested in how we Take our health Is third john verse two And this verse says beloved i wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health Even as your soul prospers so It is possible that many of us are not aware that As our souls prosper God wants us to be in health And this health It is us who have to do something about it god is not going to do anything about our health So god has provided everything that He has put in the plant world For us to enjoy for us to use But it is up to us to go out there and do that that we may be in health Galatians chapter six verse seven says Do not be deceived God cannot be mocked A man reaps What his souls So What you saw in form of food What you saw in form of the eight laws of health today? We are speaking specifically about What we eat? But what we saw That is what we become Many of us know that we are made of what we But when we are hungry, we don't remember that we are made of what we eat We eat what is going to satisfy us And this is why today we are talking about this message The other verse that I find very solemn Is fast corintians chapter three verse 17 and 17 And it says no he not that you are the temple of god And that the spirit of god dwelleth in you If any man defile the temple of god Him shall god destroy for the temple of god is holy Which temple you are? I don't think god could have said it in a more solemn manner That if you destroy the temple the one temple that each one of us has then god says he's going to destroy him I do believe that god is not going to send an earthquake he's not going to send A tsunami to destroy you but slowly by slowly you are going to destroy yourself And so today we are going to look at some of the things that are best for us To Relate with so that we can be able to take care of this temple Unfortunately or fortunately each one of us has got only one And if we don't take care of it then we have everything to lose so here This is a new car And somebody is looking at the owner's manual And it is the same way with our health God has given us the manual and that is the word of god. That is the bible That is going to help us to understand How we are going to take care of this one temple that god has given us in order that it may be useful to ourselves and to god If you think of what our sister just spoke a short while ago that each one of us has a talent But when you are sick You cannot use your talent Because most of the time you will find that you are incapacitated or you are In bed or you are in hospital and you cannot use your gift to serve god It is very unfortunate when that happens, but as I said before This all depends on you But most of all let us remember that the holy spirit is able to strengthen us and to enable us To serve and to do that which we purpose to do Now this new car Somebody did not read the manual And this is what they are now doing And this may look quite Funny, but that is what we do with ourselves God has created us. He has given us a manual. He has given us instructions But this is what we do with our temple. We put in that which god has not Allowed us to use We don't do this with our cars But we can do this with our bodies and we can then let it pass My prayer is that god will help us to realize that This our bodies is all that we have And if we take care of them god will use us to the atom He's going to help us to be able to Serve and to serve and to serve Now another person, the same vehicle This is what the person is doing because they did not read the manual And I would say again that many of us are doing this with our bodies Because we have not read the manual or we have not thought that this is a serious matter So what happens when we don't read the manual? This is what happens A brand new car is Is in the night on the streets and it is not working I consider these as sick As sickness When we don't do what god has instructed This is what happens to our bodies Many many times we are going to find ourselves at the clinics Many times we are going to find ourselves Not able to really do what we can do for god And yet our desire is to serve god our desire is to do our best for god What is god's original diet? Today i'm talking about the original diet It is fruits and nuts and grains and vegetables This is what god has prescribed for us And god has made so many of these types of fruits and nuts and grains and vegetables that we cannot lack with options Is just that we have been raised differently. We have been acclimatized differently. We have different habits But time is now for us to go back and do that which is going to please our god that we may be prepared Around the generations around the flood This is what has happened Adam lived 930 years They lived on god's original diet If you look at these generations We are now living At about to about 70 years And 70 is not even these days. I think now the life expectancy is About 46 or 48 on average But if we want to serve god, why would you want to serve god until you are 48 or Or about 50 Yet there is so much talent in each one of us. Why don't you choose to do god's will that he may use you to the atom most? I'm told that when we will meet with adam This is how we will be looking at him. You can see us at the end there A small little man This is how adam and all these other generations looked like I'm told we will be surprised to see they had vigor. They had Everything that god had intended for them But poor us. This is what we have ground ourselves to so today. We are going to talk about meal planning This is very key and especially for the mamas and the ladies and also for the gentleman Who desire that the lord may give them the privilege of serving for a long time And that they may enjoy their lives, you know, there is nothing that surpasses the joy of serving I believe i'm speaking to people who are familiar with this that when you serve Those are the best moments of your life So today we are talking about meal planning Now we said that the health of the family is in the hands of the cook If you are a gentleman and your wife is not particularly keen on what you are supposed to be eating then you need to step in and help them to appreciate and to understand the importance of diet the importance of meal planning so that god can Help you and together with your family to serve to the to the atom most We said that we are made of what you eat So what we eat must be chosen very carefully remember when jesus was in the wilderness to be tempted He was very hungry but He did not accept to be tempted by the devil with the bread that he was offering him So may we also remember that God is willing and he is able to help us To be able to choose and to make the right choices of the things that we are going to eat in accordance with his word We have said that The designer's diet Is grains his indenesis chapter one verse 29 when god created man He gave him the food to eat And those are grains the fruits and the nuts and the vegetables I have not seen anything so beautiful like this these Plants that god has created for us You must agree with me that whenever you have eaten a fruit when you are hungry or you have eaten a vegetable salad When you're hungry it really tastes nice You can be able to appreciate and to server The the the the sweetness of each of these things Unlike very many other foods that we seem to prefer One of the things that makes me saddest Is that when we look at the word death Three fifths of that word is eat So many times we have died Or we shall die because of what we have eaten I always wonder I wonder if god considers this as suicide Think with me When we have eaten all the wrong things That god did not prescribed for us And then we find ourselves in the graves Spirit of prophecy says that Many are times when we have left The graveyard An angel will fly out of heaven And come to the grave and write the word Suicide on that grave Now my question is when you have committed suicide Is there hope for us? I think this is something we want to think about And ask god to help us that we may not Do that which does not please him amen Now meal planning takes skill And it requires that we are able to have knowledge We are able to use our money with wisdom We are able to spend time To make the meals and to eat the meals We are able to find that which is available And most of all a willingness and a commitment To do this We are in a first world generation where we feel that The food must be made very quickly and we have to eat it very quickly And we have to cook that which is available At that particular time But if you think of what we are saying that We are made of what we eat And that if we defile or destroy this temple God says he will also destroy us Then this is an area where we have to give a lot of time And we are going to use whatever it takes for us to be able to have a good meal So many a times foods have become a status symbol And so therefore I have a doctor friend of mine Or a doctor And he had major issues with diabetes And he was having also blood pressure And he was not able to resolve this matter even after taking medication for a long time So somebody told him to come and talk to me and let's hear what if we can change his diet He was not familiar with this diet stuff So when we discussed with him we wrote a meal plan with him After a few months he was feeling very different and he was feeling very happy So he invited his friends to his house for a lunch They were men So when the men came the man had prepared only vegetarian dishes So one of his friends called him aside and asked him Is there a problem? So he was wondering why How come there is no meat In these meals You know because you see many of us have placed certain foods to represent status This gentleman wanted to make a statement that it doesn't have to be flesh For us to look like we are important people So we can learn to eat different foods And if you have children and they don't like what you are presenting Don't push it down their throats just allow them for a while and then try it again And ultimately we will begin to enjoy that which we are eating Even when it is different from what we have been eating previously So there is here a vegetarian food guide pyramid And we can see that grains and cereals and pulses Should be the should form the bulk of our meals The vegetables and the fruits will be next The seeds and the nuts will come afterwards And if you must have your dairy and your oils and your sweets Then those should be as few as we as you can take But for us in the remnant now at this time in earth's history Really I think it is time to be on our knees I think it is time to besiege God that He may help us That we may not only hear these things But that we may do these things That we may be able to hear God's voice with clarity Amen So the reason why plant-based foods are the best foods Is because they have a lot of fiber Most other foods the fiber has been removed or it is not sufficient And fiber is the best natural colon cleanser And for many of us we are familiar or we know that One of the major causes of disease is having a colon that is not clean Is having a colon that has food that has been there for two years I gather that when we eat white flour It will lodge in our intestines and it can be there for even two years Now you can imagine food being in your colon for that long So you can see what God has created Beautiful, beautiful How would we not enjoy this? The green vegetables and the grasses And all those other natural foods Most of them are antifungal The greener they are the better And if we are not well Then we can extract juices from these plants And use them to alkalize our bodies And then we can heal more efficiently Now the chlorophyll in the green vegetables Is what makes the plants green And it is what is able to help our bloods to be cleansed And therefore we are able to ward off unnecessary diseases So the other challenge that we have now because of the first first life Is refined foods The refined food they cause constipation They increase the acid levels in the body Especially because they will be in your colon for long And most of the times they will deprive our bodies of the vitamins and the minerals So many people suffer from constipation And that is one of the major causes of Most of the major illnesses that we can have in our bodies So constipation is caused by drinking water with drinking liquids with meals Poor food combinations Over eating and late night eating And not enough chewing And also eating in between meals So may the Lord help us to look at these things and realize that We are we are God's temple And there's only one of you And if you really want to serve God Then you are going to do something about this When we talk about refined foods How many pieces of white flour bread do you need to eat In order to get the same amount of fiber from whole wheat bread Four to five portions So if you are still serving white bread Then you can see how much money you are wasting So how many of the same to get the same amount of zinc They would have to eat about eight portions So you can see what God has created for us They have fiber, they have chlorophyll They have zinc, they have all the minerals you can think of You don't have to fortify your foods with anything When you are on a plant-based diet So food now therefore The quantity pyramid What is the best, what is the food that should be eaten What time is the largest quantity of food supposed to be eaten I can get an answer Breakfast somebody has said, that is very good So assuming that you have your breakfast at seven o'clock Give yourself five to six hours before you have another meal And between these meals You are only allowed to do water And nothing else And nothing else Because your body requires time to digest And time to rest Most of us have stomachs which are 80 years old And we are 40 years old Because the chronological clock of the stomach Has moved to 80 because you are eating all the time So the stomach is wasted The stomach is misused So when we eat Let us eat to our fill Give ourselves five to six hours And then we can have another meal So the timing of meals we have said Should be four to five hours between meals If you are much older five to six hours When you grow older usually There is not so much happening in your system So you don't require so much food And you need more time to rest So the other thing is Three to four hours before bedtime That is when we should have our last meal I know this is very difficult for us because we work But what are we going to do? Which one is going to fit into which one? Is it us who are going to do the wrong thing Or are we going to do everything possible To do the right thing? As we have said, this is the remnant church And the Lord, as I said, is holding the winds of strife That he may be able to seal us But we are not going to be sealed If we cannot hear the voice of God And when your system is clogged When your system is tired You will not hear the voice of God So may the Lord help us to feed ourselves So eat them, buy them The vegetables Most of us do not enjoy celery But I am going to give you some recipes Which are going to show us where to place some of these things I am saying here that meal time is a social time Let us try and make at least one meal a day For the family to enjoy our food So I will move a little bit faster Okay I am talking here about meals that promote health Begumes are a perfect replacement for flesh Wind is usually a main factor when they are not rinsed enough For most beans soak them overnight And rinse them two or three times before cooking Others can be rinsed after cooking if they are still frothing Let the ladies understand this one Because that froth is what causes wind And most people will say they don't enjoy Having the beans or the legumes The lentils mostly do not require soaking But they may be rinsed several times So that they do not create wind Soybeans should be soaked for at least 24 hours before cooking And rinsed several times So that maybe even while you are still cooking them You can remove them and rinse them again If they have a tendency to create wind for members of your families All meals should be served with a raw salad or some steamed vegetables So most of us, especially from the west We like legumes We like peanuts Unfortunately, these are very difficult to digest And should only be eaten with other foods That is why you find that when people are traveling They chew on the peanuts And they say they don't get hungry Of course you will not be hungry Because these are not nuts They are legumes It is like beans They are very difficult to digest Actually they take about eight hours to digest So therefore they should be cooked Well cooked and should be eaten with other foods I have some breakfast suggestions here I'm talking about black eyed peas We call them white kunde in this country This is a recipe And for the ladies who would like me to share this with them I will comfortably do that Because these have been made simplest So that we can be able to have a breakfast That can be prepared as soon as possible The other thing that I find very important When we are on a vegetarian diet Is that we must use the herbs When we talk about the herbs I'm talking about the basil I'm talking about the oregano I'm talking about the thyme I'm talking about the sage It takes a while for us to acclimatize our taste buds To eating vegetarian meals But when you add these herbs The food tastes better And the food has a better aroma So it is very easy for us to begin to appreciate that I'm suggesting that we use olive oil If you look at this suggestion We are only going to use a teaspoon of the oil Because many of us will say that we cannot afford the olive oil It is true It is not cheap But which one is cheaper Between being sick And paying a doctor a lot of money Or buying this bottle of olive oil Which costs about a thousand shillings But it is going to last a month and a half I still feel it is better to keep away the doctor And to eat right When we are talking about the use of olive oil The best way to cook our meals Is to put a little water in your pan Put a lot of onion And let the water begin to boil Put a reasonable amount of onion And let that onion cook for about five minutes That means the aroma and the taste of the onion Has got into the little water that you put If you are serving If you are making food for about four people You could probably use a quarter cup of water And then you put your onion and let the onion cook Then you can add everything else that you wanted to add And that way when the food is almost cooked Then you add this little amount of oil in your food I believe we are all aware that we have been told that most oil Are not good oils I hear everybody saying that The best oil that you can use That is used differently from olive oil Is coconut oil You can buy the coconut itself And use the mousse to remove the flesh And then you make the milk out of it And make your meals with it This one is a fine oil Because you can put it directly in the pan Unlike olive oil Olive oil should not be put directly on a hot pan You put it in your food I am suggesting that we try this Because they are beautiful meals You will really enjoy them The other we have said that the black The peas should be rinsed and changed the water And of course we shall use the garlic, the ginger And the other herbs that we are talking about And for this kind of a meal in the morning You can serve this with brown rice or green bananas And of course if you like to have it with bread You can do that I am seeing faces which are telling me How am I going to eat all this in the morning Nothing good comes easy If we want to be in good health We have to sacrifice something So let us sacrifice our time Let us sacrifice our money That we may be in health I will move from the breakfast And talk about the lunches This is the best time for us to have beans Again we are going to use the herbs that I talked about And of course we said when you saute the onions You let them cook in water and a bit of salt And when they have cooked Then you can add the rest of your food The most important recipes that were requested For me to be able to bring about Is fruit combination and food combination In the evenings if you have been able to have a good meal for lunch Then you can do only a fruit or a soup I have recipes for the fruits I have recipes for the light soups Which you can have in the evening So that when you go to sleep All the members, all the parts can sleep Many of us eat at nine o'clock And when we go to bed The stomach is not too sure what to do because You are sleeping and there is food to be digested So the digestion process is slowed And then you wake up having nightmares And you wake up with a bad taste in your mouth And a bad smell in your mouth Because everything was happening inside the stomach As I said I have these recipes Which I can share with anybody who is interested One of the things that I have observed that many of us do The watermelon looks simple But this is a fruit that should not be eaten with anything else So you eat it alone or leave it alone Most people will say But you know when we go to the big hotels They serve us all this But those are not health institutions So we are going to do that which is right And the Lord is going to help us amen So I have recipes for the soups We use peas and lentils for supper Because they don't take too long to digest And they are usually digested within an hour So by the time you have had your evening soup And your slice of bread Or a little bit of brown rice Then you can be able to go and sleep Three hours or four hours later And your body is going to thank you for treating it well There are a lot of salad dressing recipes That I have also put here I will share them with the women ministry And the deconestors department So that we can be able to take them and use them So when we say a vegetarian diet Most of us will rest in the Word of God In Ecclesiastes 717 says Why should you die before your time? And as I said It is very likely that the angel of the Lord Will have written suicide on our graves May the Lord help us to make a commitment That we may be able to do that which is right Before God and that finally we will be among those Who will be ready to meet him when he comes Amen May we pray our God and our Father in heaven This is a difficult subject for many of us Because we have been raised differently We are used to different things And we know that many of us are also struggling And trying to battle with appetite But Lord we are reminded that you came and you overcame appetite Father how I pray for these who are listening to me this afternoon That you may give them courage Courage to realize that we don't do this for ourselves But we are going to do it for you And when we do it for you heavenly Father You are going to send the Holy Spirit to strengthen us That we may be overcome us Help us oh Lord that we do not take these things for granted Because they have eternal consequences We thank you Lord because you have given us this time to hear May we apply these in our lives For these I pray in Jesus mighty name Open thou our minds Father to understand the great truths Thou hearts to receive them Lead us where thank you Praise you in Jesus name Now this afternoon having spent two days talking the science of health I want to just take some time on the scriptures And so the topic of my presentation today is what the scriptures say about health I couldn't have gotten a better introduction This topic than what sister has just presented Thank you sister So um health well being The bible makes it plain that when god created this app he created it perfect Okay Genesis 1 verse 31 Please prepare to run with me Because we are going to run through several scriptures And I decided to do that without even giving you the slides If you want to write the passages down you can write For later reading for those who can cope in opening them up Please let's move together We are going to go through several scriptures On what does the bible say about health and well being So point number one is Genesis 1 verse 31 That when god created this earth and everything on it he made them perfect Good wonderful Okay, so we get that from Genesis 1 verse 31 At the end of verse chapter 1 God has made everything And so verse 31 and chapter 2 is actually a summary of what has gone on in chapter 1 of Genesis So verse 31 says and god saw everything that he had made And behold it was very good and the evening and the morning was the sixth day Now it is as if for the first time god had made something quite different from what he had ever made before and as he was making this earth the whole universe was on looking When finally god was through on friday evening they looked at what he had made And there was a spontaneous rapture of praise from the children of god We read this from the book of job chapter 38 When job when god answers job With thunderous questions a series of questions which he could not answer And this is among the things that he tells job Then the lord answered job out of the whirlwind and said Who is this that dakeneth counseled by words without knowledge God up now thy loins like a man for I will demand of thee and answer thou me Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth declared if thou has understanding Who has laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who has stretched line upon it Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the cornerstone thereof verse 7 says when the morning stars sunned together and all the sons of god shouted for joy they looked they were thrilled it was beautiful nice wonderful I am sure they didn't have to be told that hey you angels universe please god has just done something good let us sing and praise him like sometimes in church we are almost begged to sing we are tired and we don't feel like praising god and when we sing we sing like if our interest is not really on it they didn't have to be prodded they didn't have to be asked they just spontaneously broke into rapturous praise and songs god what you have done it is nice wonderful it didn't take long things broke asunder came things broke asunder amukora called the devil deceived our parents and then causes came we read the causes in chapter three and henceforth pain sickness sorrow tears suffering and death is the consequence but god did not just leave us suffer like that he gave instructions on how to minimize the pain and suffering and this is what jesus life demonstrated here on earth he spent more time comforting the troubled and healing the sick than preaching because he cared for them he looked at them many times we read over and over that jesus looked at the crowd they looked like lost sheep without a shepherd and sometimes he said give them food okay and we know more than once he created food thousands of people and after they had eaten he released them to go jesus cared for the sick there was not one single person who ever came to jesus sick and was not healed and this is why peter makes this summary statement about jesus life acts chapter 10 when he is called to go to the home of cornelias and proclaim the gospel he is talking to the family of cornelias and the people the neighbors and everybody who had gathered chapter 10 of acts okay verse 34 says then peter opened his mouth and said of a truth i perceive that god is no respecter of bosons but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him the word of god which god sent unto the children of israel preaching peace by jesus christ he is lord of all that word i say you know which was published throughout all you there and began from galilee after the baptism which john preached verse 38 how god anointed jesus of nasareth with the holy ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for god was with him please take note oppression sickness is from the devil it may not be directly but because the devil is the father of lies and the father of sin and he is the ruler of this world the ruler of our natural instincts and tendencies our inequities as the bible calls them when sickness pain and sorrow comes it is because he has led us to break god's laws and through breaking god's laws we become sick and so in reality sickness is all from the devil and jesus came to destroy the works of the devil it is the devils aim always and goal to lead us to break god's laws god's laws is in reality god's way of doing things when we ask what should you eat what should you drink god has prescribed what you should eat and you should drink but the devil would make you think that god's laws don't matter you can break them with impunity they don't matter there is this language that one is not important it doesn't matter when we are counseled when we are told god's ways we say it is not important it doesn't matter who told you it doesn't matter that language is from the enemy of souls the enemy of god god has given instructions on what we should do and when we disregard them because of his inspiration and leading we end up in trouble sin causes death sin is also called rebelliousness lawlessness disregard for god's way of doing things god knows what is right his knowledge is under is perfect his love is perfect whatever he tells us is for our own good and so the evil one by leading us to this regular god's instructions the honors manual he leads us into sickness and that is why you will find from genesis to revelation the main thing about god's people and the children of the world is god's law okay now this is the reason we read that when abra god decided to choose abraham to use as a messenger an example the one through all all the blessings would come he chose him for this reason he was not only a believer but he is a person who obeyed god genesis chapter 18 verse 17 to 19 genesis 18 verse 17 to 19 and the lord said shall I hide from abraham that thing which i do as mica also puts it that the lord never does anything without first telling his servants the prophets shall I hide from abraham that thing which i do seeing that abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him through him it's not only abraham and his family god cared for he cares for the whole world but it was necessary to he pick one person through whom he could work to reach out the whole world the jewish problem was that they even ended up thinking they are the only ones who god cared for and loved who could be saved and they were greatly troubled including the early church they couldn't understand acts chapter 10 which we are just reading peter himself did not know did not understand that the salvation jesus has brought is not only for the jews it is for the whole world they had a problem understand that understanding that that's why they were exclusive when they went out and mixed with the gentiles they were defiled with sin and they would go back home and engage in all kinds of washing to wash off sin of contamination by the gentiles so he is the one through whom the whole earth is going to be blessed for i know him that he will command his children in his household after him and they shall keep the way of the lord to do justice and judgment that the lord may bring upon abraham that which he had spoken of him and then he told him about the breaking the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adma and Zeboim including Zohar but Zohar escaped because of lot all the cities of the plain was supposed to be destroyed and so when eventually after the children of israel have multiplied in egypt and god goes to rescue them the first thing that he does with them is to remind them of who they are and why he has chosen them not because they are the only ones whom god cares for but as to be used as instruments to reach everybody else and he gives them their job exodus chapter 19 verse from verse three and moses went up unto god and the lord called unto him out of the mountain saying thus shall thou say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of israel you have seen what i did unto the ediptians and how i have i bore you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then you shall be a peculiar treasure and to me above all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be and to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of israel so god chose israel keep his way his law law on which life is built james the book of james calls it the royal law the law of liberty the law of love if god's laws were kept we would have a heaven on earth can you imagine a kenya where there is not one single thief oh i tell you we would be the richest nation on earth can you imagine a kenya where there is no hatred mallease no murder no magas in narobi town our wives can walk the streets our daughters can walk the streets even at two three a.m. walk all the way from parklands from narobi west go to town meditating and praying and go back without any fear you can leave your money on the way anywhere and you have no fear of losing it somebody will pick it and look for you and give it back to you no fear of stealing robbery death this country would be heaven on earth where god's law the royal law the law of liberty the law that when kept brings true liberty is kept there is peace be but what cares my heart is verse five trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not on thy own understanding excuse me what did say trust in the lord with all thine heart and trust not in thy own understanding what is wrong with our understanding but doesn't sound educated doesn't sound scientific for everywhere in literature inspirational talks and we thought to be self confident to be assertive to be proud of ourselves to make your own decisions and let nobody tell you what to do that is a message from the enemy of souls because proverbs 14 verse 12 of okay proverbs 14 verse 12 of the reason we should not trust ourselves lean on our own understanding but instead follow the direct commands of god is because verse 12 of there is a way which seemeth right and to a man but the end thereof are the ways of death you know human beings are proud our two basic problems are pride and selfishness every other sin that we commit can be traced back to these two principles pride and selfishness we don't want to be told we don't want to be corrected and if there is any painful thing you can do to a human being telling excuse me sister excuse me brother you are wrong follow this one who are you to tell me you are telling me as what when you think you know more than me think you're more clever than me who are you have a problem be corrected being told what is right we don't like and when we do wrong even when we know it our wrong is pointed out the most one of the most difficult things for a human being is to admit that actually I was wrong sorry let me correct it you'd rather cover it up there is a way which to us seems right but the reality the truth is it ends in death now the reason for all this is that something went wrong with us when we rejected God and we allowed the spirit of the evil one to take control of us from that day henceforth things broke up and so we're reading Jeremiah 17 verse 9 the heart the human heart is deceitful above all things and it desperately wicked who can know it then the Lord in Mark 10 summarizes it by putting it this way when the young man comes to Jesus and asks him good Lord what must I do to be said and the Lord retorts why do you call me good verse 18 chapter 10 verse 18 Jesus said to him why do you call me good there is none good but one that is God and you adults if you have not known that it is rather late there is no human being who is good only God something went wrong with us when sin came in we cannot trust ourselves trust God trust his way his law his commandments now Proverbs 10 verse 27 we read these words the fear of the Lord prolonged days but the years of the wicked shall be shortened could anything tell us better the fear of God those who believe him who listen and obey it prolonged days but the wicked who disregard his ways his law their days shall be shortened and then there are many other verses that say the same thing in different ways for example chapter 9 verse 10 and 11 say the same thing in a different way the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding for by me thy days shall be multiplied and the years of thy life shall be increased then 1923 the same book Proverbs the fear of the Lord tender to life and he that has it shall abide satisfied he shall not be visited with evil okay so the summary of all that is that the scripture is making it plain that the fear of God trusting his word and following his instructions brings us life prolongs our days when we disregard it it is seen this rebellion it is evil it only shortens our days there are many people who will die before their time you know the question that is asked over and over how long will one live on this earth and what determines how long one will live many would still want to believe that it is God who determines how long you live but we saw from my previous presentations that actually it is us who determine how long we live that is why Ecclesiast tells us why will you die before your time Ecclesiast 7 verse 17 there are people who die long before their time because of disregard of God's laws of nature of how to live of food and nutrition in Exodus 23 okay in Exodus 23 God tells his people Israel that if only you will listen to me okay Exodus 23 verse 25 and 26 at the end of the first batch of the law which was given to Moses he gives these words and you shall serve the Lord your God and you shall bless he shall bless thy bread and thy water and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee there shall be nothing that casts the iron nor be barren in thy land the number of thy days I will fulfill um God called his people to keep his law and he gave them the law and blessed are they who listened who obeyed and followed God's law but the natural tendency of us human beings is to ignore God's ways and follow our own ways and God says this over and over the one of the saddest verses in the bible is the very last verse in the book of judges that is judges chapter 21 verse 25 it says judges 21 verse 25 in those days there were there was no king in Israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes contrary to what God had expressly told them in Deuteronomy 12 verse 8 he had expressly told them you shall not do after all the things that we do here this day every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes okay so in summary God's way his law life length of days this regard God's ways trouble with this regard God's ways because there's nothing good in us it is only when we allow Christ to come into our lives when we allow him to be our lord and master when we surrender our lives to him that God comes in and begins to work in us in fact this is the meaning of the new bath when John 3 3 we read that truly truly I say unto you that unless you are born again you shall not enter into the kingdom of God and I like the way it is translated in my language ok the issue about being born again is that you recognize that you are a sinner you are corrupt and wicked you cannot trust your own ways you surrender to God your will and your life to be the lord and master of your life to lead you to teach you this is what being born again is all about surrendering your will and your life to Christ and God makes it plain that accept us that happens you cannot enter when you surrender your life server or miracles happen your sins are forgiven God recreates you a new afresh your name is written in the book of life God gives you of his Holy Spirit to live in you to dwell in you and so we read in 1 Corinthians 3 that don't you know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and that God dwells in you if anybody defiles God's temple God will destroy him 6 verse 19 and 20 don't you know that you belong to Christ and that you are bought with an unmeasurable price even the blood of Jesus therefore glorify God in your bodies the ways of our nature are different ok i've already read several verses that refer us to that Jeremiah 17 but just to put this further Galatians 5 17 for the flesh lasts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and this are contrary to one another so that you cannot do the things that you would but if you are led of the spirit you are not under the law when you surrender your life to Jesus it is now the spirit of God it is the Lord himself dwelling in you and leading you and you shall not fulfill the desires of the flesh now what are these laws i'm talking about so much ok one thing we must get clear is that you see as we are today the medical practice the medical profession medicine is a science and the principle of science science is a method of arriving at truth the principle of science which was promulgated and propagated by two scientists in the early Renaissance period in the 12th and 13th century René Descartes a French philosopher and Francis Bacon of England the scientific method is that you make observations theorize about the relationships of the observations experiment to find out whether you are theorizing of the relationships is true and if your experiments can show that the relationships are true then now the truth is proved and if you can through study and experimentation show that something is true and somebody else also does the same then the testimony of two now confirms the truth now that scientific truth becomes the law that is the scientific method observation theorizing experimentation analysis and showing statistically that what you theorized is true it has helped us it has made a difference between the world in the world it is not even 300 years since we discovered the microscopic world of jams it is very recent that we discovered the truth about food and nutrition health and hygiene drugs and how we should use them these things it is not long ago it is the scientific method that brought them experimental medicine but as is always with human beings even when experimental medicine brings us out the truth we still have a problem with what we call alternative medicine which is Bahat in Asibu now the problem with the scientific method is that it is not complete it depends on human ability but the human beings are limited there are things we don't know there is not a single one of us who can know everything we say that the more learned a person is the more he knows so much about very little only god can know everything so the scientific method is good it is the truth but remember it is limited in other words this current scientific opinion about health food and nutrition they may be right they may be wrong as time goes troops will be an earth that may completely overturn the current opinions we saw this in the 19th century when god started giving sister white visions concerning health those were the days when if you had a chest infection the doctor would prescribe tobacco today we know better if you had a tv one of the treatments was smoking those were the days that poisons like chlorine and bromine were prescribed as drugs arsenic was treated as an antibiotic to know today we know better those are poisons that will kill you that was the current scientific opinion in other words i'm trying to say brothers and sisters and you can trace this back to all our scientific developments they are good we use the available scientific evidence but the word of but the final verdict should be from the word of god not from science science is just supportive these laws of health which god has given us is number one god has given us laws of health he has stated very plainly leviticus 11 and deuteronomy 14 what foods are good for food and what is not good for food it is obvious to everybody but not everything was made for food how do you decide what is good for food well your parents taught you you were born you grew up and you know your family you found you were eating this and not this one and so it's just from tradition from your family but as christians we know better those who have gone to school know better there's some of our beliefs and traditions were wrong okay so god gives us from the beginning the diet that was good for us the vegetarian diet later sin comes he allows us to eat flesh but with restrictions and he states in those passages leviticus 11 and deuteronomy 14 what is good for food hygiene leviticus 15 tells us um no time does not allow me to read these things okay it talks about uh those who have wounds on the body and body discharge that if you have any discharge you are to isolate yourself until evening when you can bathe and wash your body and clothes then and only then did you become clean the same more or less chapter tells us about women and their menses that when a woman was in her menses she was unclean the men were to keep away from them it was actually seen to sleep with a woman in her periods chapter 13 onwards tells us about leprosy there are very contagious disease infection disease of that time if you had leprosy you had to be isolated principle of health and hygiene that if your child has missiles don't send him to school you are going to punish other children if you have covid 19 isolate yourself don't go around spreading it to everybody the principle of isolation of patients with infectious disease that is a biblical principle so we find principles about health cleanliness about disease isolation for those who have infectious diseases washing of the body we find health laws about what you drink proverbs 20 verse one wine is a mocha wine is a fiber and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise we find one of the fundamental health laws avoid fat and blood leviticus 3 verse 17 it shall be a statute for israel throughout the generations that they neither eat fat nor blood did you know that what makes meat chicken fish sweet is the fat and the blood if you were to take meat and grind it and remove all the blood and the fat what remains is bitter there is no taste in it you'd throw it away and yet it is these two things that makes meat sweet the things which god forbid and today the leading cause of illness is coronary artery disease the position of abnormal fats on your blood vessels what we call atherosclerosis atherometers blood and patches interfering with circulation enhancing your aging causing cancer and disease if only god's people listened to him and he says those who listen to obey length of life and peace the law of god is perfect converting the soul the law of god lasts forever let us fear god let us walk with god let us walk by the scripture of principles they are true they are right they are tested and proven may god bless you let us pray loving father in heaven many things you have taught us but lord we read and even hear them but do we listen help us lord have mercy on us to believe your word and to walk with you continue to be with us in our community in our learning lessons but we thank you and praise you in jesus name good afternoon family thank you doctor you ate a bit into my time so i'll move fast it's another time that we divide ourselves into our different divisions and by now i believe most of us do know but for the sake of the visitors i will remind us once again that the college jets will be at the tent by the parking area just adjacent to the old sanctuary coordinated by sister brandy and caddy and the speakers are jaffeth and jess rono young adults coordinated by polo dira and sister aching orero the speaker is pastor benjamin okindo and the venue is the tent at the union young professionals pastor jp mayua coordinated by sister winnie gesane venue is a tent at the union grounds there two tents at the union ground so we'll be able to identify our classes when we get there and then we go to the singles coordinated by sister dorothy muga which is me a speaker is sister jessin towere and the venue is uh at the main sanctuary by the elders desk widows and widowers speaker professor miriam witter coordinator sister betris oyugi and the venue is the music room behind the pulpit but kindly go around don't walk across the pulpit and married zero to ten young couples the speaker is pastor lovin moio coordinator is dorita abura the venue is a tent outside the maps library to my right married 11 to 20 years speaker sister milis antonioni coordinator sister iran witty the venue is a balcony married 21 to 30 years coordinated by hey stop jumping coordinated by brother george and sister rhoda ochira and our speaker is dr dorisha muga they'll be sitting to my left at the main sanctuary next to the church clocks desk or the music desk youth desk married 31 and above our speaker is pastor daniel ghanu coordinator is elder charles ochola and sister marino ochola and the venue is the main sanctuary just below the balcony shall we pray as we divide ourselves heavenly father may your holy spirit abound as we continue in your presence father in heaven give us knowledge from above lord for this is my prayer in jesus name